{"39716":{"#nid":"39716","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Announces Winners Guthman Musical Instrument Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s Center for Music Technology announced Jaime Oliver\u0027s Silent Drum won first place in first Guthman Musical Instrument Competition.  The competition, supported by the philanthropic family of Tech alum Richard Guthman, showcased new uses of technology to enhance participation in music performance and music creation. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENearly 30 inventors from seven countries performed on Georgia Tech\u0027s campus in the competition for more than $15,000 in prizes.  Guest judges Eran Egozy, of video game development company Harmonix Music Systems, and digital music writer Eliot Van Buskirk joined the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology to score the instruments for their musicality, design and engineering. Eric Singer from the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR) won second place for his robotic guitar, and SLABS Touch Pads by David Wessel of the Center of New Music and Audio Technologies at the University of California, Berkeley, took third place. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We were blown away by the diversity and quality of the competitors - it was great to see ideas from both commercial firms and academicians and just creative young musicians,\u0022 said Tech music director Frank Clark. \u0022Thanks to the Guthmans, we think the Musical Instrument Competition will expose new paradigms of expression year after year.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It was a very open and competitive group of people with some very high quality instruments,\u0022 said Oliver, a doctoral student at University of California, San Diego. \u0022Judging was good and diverse, and technical support was great.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOliver\u0027s instrument is a drum shell with an elastic spandex head, illuminated from the inside, that uses shapes and shadows to compute and control sound. Other entries included Sorisu, which responded and accompanies a player\u0027s movements in the game Soduko; the Tongue Music System; and a whimsical star-and-circle-shaped contraption with exposed wires that uttered slow, mysterious sounds.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Since this was the first competition of its kind, it brought together people that had been working on the subject for decades,\u0022 said Oliver. \u0022Good competitions have a feedback effect and I wouldn\u0027t be surprised to see this one having an effect in the number and quality of instruments that are developed in the following years.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Anyone that has an idea should come, get some feedback and perhaps win,\u0022 said Oliver. \u0022Many of us do this trying to find ways of realizing sound morphologies that contain the nuance of human performance, unsatisfied with complex automations, in need of performing, of feeling that materiality that sometimes electronic sounds lack.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Silent Drum, LEMUR GuitarBot and SLABS Touch Pads win top prizes"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Music Technology announced Jaime Oliver\u0027s Silent Drum won first place in first Guthman Musical Instrument Competition.  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